Tagged: Margaret Sullivan

Blog Post / CBS

CBS features voter opinions, doesn’t represent reality

CBS stood out last week by focusing heavily on individual voter opinions in battleground states. In its series “Closing Arguments” on Oct. 31, CBS featured voters in Pennsylvania, where Hillary Clinton was up 48 to 40, according to a CBS News Tracker poll. The segment showed...

CBS / Clinton / NBC / Trump

Networks Divided on How to Fact Check

The Sept. 26 presidential debate demanded fact checking. It was unclear what the next day’s broadcasts would do. NBC responded with fifty-five seconds of fact checking inside another story. CBS had a whole story devoted to it. ABC avoided fact checking altogether. NBC’s Peter Alexander pointed...

 

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What We’re Reading

  • Why Facts Don't Change Our Minds | The New Yorker
  • The Media Loved Trump's Show of Force | The Washington Post
  • Why Is Trump Fighting ISIS in Syria? | The New York Times
  • Trump's White House Is a Family Business | Politico
  • Study: Breitbart-led right-wing media ecosystem altered broader media agenda | Columbia Journalism Review
  • CNN Had a Problem: Trump Solved it | The New York Times
  • The New York Time Reporter Trump Can't Quit | CNN

    • Sites We’re Following

  • TV Newser
  • Jim Warren, Chief Media Columnist, Poynter Institute
  • Brian Stelter, CNN Reliable Sources